Choose Offset Gas to help offset your carbon emissions for your gas usage
Red Energy will purchase Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to help offset the emissions associated with your natural gas usage*. Offset Gas is charged as an additional rate to your standard gas usage charges. Our opt-in Offset Gas product is Climate Active certified which means we purchase carbon offset certificates to help offset the emissions associated with your natural gas usage. View our Offset Gas charges. Read the relevant Public Disclosure Statement. Under our opt-in Offset Gas product, the emissions we offset from your natural gas usage do not extend to other services associated with your account, including those from third parties. *Whilst carbon offsets such as ACCUs may help offset greenhouse gas emissions, they do not prevent emissions that are released from burning fossil fuels. Even with carbon offsetting, the emissions released from burning fossil fuels for a customer’s energy use still contribute to climate change.
About Climate Active
Climate Active is an ongoing partnership between the Australian Government and Australian businesses to drive voluntary climate action. The brand represents Australia’s collective effort to measure, reduce, and offset carbon emissions to lessen our negative impact on the environment.
More about Australian Carbon Credit Units
In simple terms, Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) are a way for organisations to help "offset" their carbon emissions by buying units from projects that reduce or remove carbon from the atmosphere. Each ACCU represents a reduction or removal of one metric tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent from the atmosphere, however carbon offsets such as ACCUs do not prevent carbon emissions that are released through burning fossil fuels. Red Energy has purchased ACCUs from a human induced regeneration project in Western New South Wales which establishes permanent native forests on land that had been cleared of vegetation.